Best ending?

[blurryface]

Curious to see what everyone thinks is the best ending for base-game. I know most people will say aldecados ending but in terms of a cyberpunk ending its not mine. I think it's the happiest but I lowkey prefer the grittier endings over it. I think in terms of how it affected me afterwards the suicide ending had some of the best writing, and for the sheer head-♥♥♥♥ the arasaka ending was good for what it was and i enjoyed how everyone was upset as to get there you fully back stabbed everyone.

[̷D̷a̷e̷r̷o̷n̷i̷c̷u̷s]

To me, there is no best endings, just endings. Some more gray than others. Personally I like the one V sacrifices for Johnny to live.

[GoldInfinit7]

In my opinion
If you like Panam, then the best ending is the one where you escape with Aldecaldos.
If you don't like Panam, then the best ending is the one where you become a Legend.
If you absolutely love Johnny, then it's the Johnny ending.

[Fizzban]

All the endings are subjective. There is only one where V survives however. It is full of heart break, but a new chance at life is nothing to be sniffed at. Especially in night city.

[76561199778832672]

the one where i to skibidi toilet

[nguren]

Riding off into the sunset with Panam and Judy.

[Nar!]

Don't Fear The Reaper.

(I do love how each ending was directed)

[Spada]

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To me, there is no best endings, just endings. Some more gray than others. Personally I like the one V sacrifices for Johnny to live.

How is that a good ending when you safrifice yourself for a Terrorist?

[blurryface]

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Αναρτήθηκε αρχικά από ̷D̷a̷e̷r̷o̷n̷i̷c̷u̷s:

To me, there is no best endings, just endings. Some more gray than others. Personally I like the one V sacrifices for Johnny to live.

How is that a good ending when you safrifice yourself for a Terrorist?

saka gonk spotted

[Coleman]

So far the one with Panam and moving south with the nomads is the best one. The secret ending is pretty awesome though. Keep in mind both times i kept my body. Giving body up ending is meh.

[Chosenone]

(Don't Fear) The Reaper ending and starting out as corpo V is just so awesome in my opinion

[[=]Josiah]

My *favorite* is the Aldecaldos ending as it’s the most hopeful (especially for female V if you’ve romanced Judy). Probably best paired with a Nomad life path for the consistent themes throughout. I will say it’s the most “sloggy” to play as there is so much additional exposition and planning sequences plus a combat mechanic that is only used in that particular ending. I think it’s also the only end where you can tweak your cyberware at a ripper after meeting with Hanako.

“Don’t Fear the Reaper” is hands-down the most fun to play.

All the endings were really well done, though. Even the suicide ending was well thought-through and its end-credits sequence reveals much to our understanding of the depths of the relationships V has made in such a short span of time.

After further reflection, I think that’s my answer for “best” ending: all of them, collectively. It’s a bit of a cheat, yes, but every ending has its own unique contribution to our understanding of the story and lore. Each ending is emotionally moving with elements that are both unsettling and satisfying at the same time.

[EricHVela]

Oodles of threads about this already. All seem to suggest is: "Whatever ending you like the best for whatever reason is the best ending for you."

For me, it's the one that's out-of-tune with the game: The Sun. V wins the dream still with hope of a cure. V's a legend just like Jackie wanted. Nibbles is a pub cat. All romances earned remain available even if they left NC (as seen during credits). If succeeding the (Don't Fear) The Reaper mission, allies who were alive before that mission are still alive after that mission. Some collected H10 items are featured at the start of Path of Glory. There's a flyby of V's H10 apartment. V's living in the penthouse that was always visible from the H10 apartment window even in bad weather. Goro, the Corpo, (if alive) suggests he's going to kill himself. Reed (if Songbird ended up with the NUSA) will be confused at the choice.

It's so perfect that it's more like the fever dream of someone who's dying than "real" (in terms of the game). I'll always take the gamble at the Suicide ending (which is the result of the Easy Way Out on the rooftop or failing (DF)TR) just for this perfect ending.

The appropriate endings to me are Star, Temperance, and Tower (in that order of most to least). The remaining aren't even on my scale of endings.

(Horrible song: (Don't Fear) The Reaper (1976-Blue Öyster Cult). Just as bad as Suicide is Painless (1970-Mandel/Altman) or Angel (1997-Sara MacLachlan). Any song suggestion/promoting/interpreted as suicide being an answer to pain is a horrible song.)

[セーラーマーズ]

Temperance!

[Kblocks]

went arasaka too on the only run i ever planned to do. yorinubu is the man. live forever. all you need is a few more bodies for v and johnny to jump into

[Red Raven Thorn]

I really liked Temperance, and I bawled my ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ eyes out watching all those vids at the end when all your friends just want to know if you're ok.

But also, like, what in the actual ♥♥♥♥? Johnny is supposed to be all changed and nicer now, but he doesn't respond to let anybody know what happened to V? He just leaves them on read?! I don't get why the story ends, strongly implying all my loved ones never got any closure. Like, they're also hurt and annoyed that I'm not responding when considering my last conversations with a lot of them, it feels like "Oh V isn't answering my calls? I guess we weren't as good friends as I thought" seems...insane. Like the writing got changed at some point, like those calls were from a different ending where you disappeared *unexpectedly*.